As I’ve written before, a Germany based start-up asked me to test their project www.createmychocolate.com where people like you and me can create their very own chocolate designs. They gave me a special permission to access a soon to be released website and design 3 chocolates for free. I liked their offer, because they haven’t asked anything in exchange.
The funny thing was, that when I finished creating my chocolates and went to checkout to provide my shipping details the only country available was USA. I entered “outside US, Lithuania” and no problems – this morning I got the little package. Here it is:
To tell you the truth, I expected those chocolates to taste like crap (because I’ve googled and found one bad review), but on the contrary, the chocolates were incredible. You can read my review here.
I always let people know what I want for Christmas in my Skype’s profile message , and this time I wanted Wacom Intuos 4 Graphics Tablet. The message “I want Wacom Graphics tablet for Christmas” was hanging on my Skype profile for weeks, but this time, I instead of Wacom I got Trust. Well, ok I thought – it’s better than nothing, and I really wanted a graphics tablet! To tell you the truth, it must be the cheapest tablet in the world, but I’m still really happy, and thankful to Santa Claus.
My First drawing with a Graphics Tablet
No, I’m absolutely not religious! I was just playing around and that’s what I got :)
Testing
“Wireless Design & Work Tablet 100″ was a real pain in my ass. I couldn’t make my Photoshop Cs3 recognize the pen pressure. So I googled and found out that I needed the newest drivers from www.trust.com. Wow, it worked!
However, it works absolutely awkwardly – 1 minute it works, the other minute I can’t draw any line. I don’t know, whether I’m doing anything wrong, or all those comments about crappy graphics tablets from Trust were truth. I’ll find out it of course.
My second attempt
This one after some tweaking will be probably used for http://www.boredpanda.com (one of my projects).
Final Thoughts
I think it’s much much easier to draw with a graphics tablet, than with a real pencil on a real paper. To tell you the truth, I have never thought I could draw so well.
So, if you are wondering, whether you really need one – go for it, but maybe not with Trust.
Few days ago I got a lovely letter from a German startup, which have been selling customized chocolate bars in Germany for over a year now and are launching www.createmychocolate.com for US market.
First, they asked me to test their website, and I was just fascinated by the simplicity of their idea – you can finally customize your very own chocolate. (Those who have seen 2010 Consumer Trend Report from TREND HUNTER know that customized stuff will be very trendy in 2010).
I didn’t promise them to write anything about their project, but they said, I can have 3 free chocolate bars. Well, finally some recognition I deserve :)
So..I made one full of nuts for myself, other with berries for my girlfriend(strawberries, cranberries, cherries) and the last one for my enemies (Jalopenos+Chives+CHili+Gummy Bears+ flower Mix).
Finally, when I was entering my shipping address and tried to select the country, I saw that only USA is available. As you probably already know, I live in Lithuania, so I hope this won’t stop them from shipping my chocolates! I want my chocolate so badly!!! Just kidding.
To sum up, I felt very good to be treated this way, + it’s a lesson for everyone, that good advertisement sometimes costs only 3 chocolates.
